As a man of Irish blood, every drink I enjoy must have a common drug otherwise it’s just wasting my time. During the feared but misunderstood period of study leave, this drink is mainly tea. In theory it keeps me awake and active to be more efficient with my (now running out) time, but in practice my laziness is unaffected and I go to bed at my ‘normal’ time, regretting the intake of caffeine two hours into my attempted stasis while I contemplate the universe and life as a superhero.

Here’s the steps to tea addiction, decide where you lie:-1. You hate tea and wish the beverage was obliterated from the face of the Earth.0. You’re indifferent. It’s as neutral as water. Its existence has neither benefited nor abused your own.1. You’ll go for it if offered, like a Celebration Malteser from your teacher at the end of the year if you weren’t a complete dick to them.2. You’ll more likely than not have a tea to accompany your café meal with yourself, a friend, or a (hopefully tea loving) date of yours.3. You start asking females in your family to make you tea time to time.4. You train yourself to operate kettles, and make tea for yourself time to time.5. Tea is now the patron drink of early mornings.6. Your average heart rate has jumped about ten beats per minute.7. The lady at the school canteen knows your sugar preference while you scrounge silvers from your tea money fund.8. You get hostile when supporting friends and family stand in your way, especially when they use your custom mugs.9. You are a mere shadow of the gentle stallion you were. Your spouse has given up discussing your problem and has left you. You spend nights on a brown-stained floor.10. You hate tea and wish the beverage was obliterated from the face of the Earth.

PS: Comics will be back in a week or two.PPS: Three weekly videos in a row? Yeah, study leave has me by the balls.

I applied to university a day before the deadline, and I submitted my choices a day before the deadline. Like a boss. But what did I decide from my many offers?

Short answer:Firm: WarwickInsurance: Manchester

Long answer:Firm: Warwick F303 (Physics)Grades: AAA including maths and physics.Change course to FG31 (Mathematics and Physics) when I arrive.Grades: A*AA including maths and physics, with the A* in maths.Insurance: Manchester F305 (Physics)Grades: A*AA including maths and physics.

Basically, a while ago I was strongly considering changing from Physics to Mathematics and Physics if I went to Warwick, because I hate labs (which barely exist in the latter course) and I don’t mind maths (even if my prerequisites and ethnicity are substandard for Warwick’s maths). There’s also the fact that I suck at and hate physics, but you weren’t supposed to know that.

Having two offers probably helped as I suck at making choices. I chose Warwick as a university over Manchester mainly because of its setting (my eighteen years as a Londoner made me resent cities), and as a course from Warwick’s elimination of labs when changing to MathsPhys. I sent an e-mail a few days ago to change course, but it’s too late now for it to go through on Track (however, I’ll be fine when I arrive as long as I get the higher grades). The plus side of that is that I have two insurances, and won’t go into clearing with AAA. The downside is that it’s pretty much impossible for me to end up in Manchester.

That said, from my small experience I did really like Manchester’s department; it also helps that Manchester isn’t Durham. Just sayin’.

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